How they approached the adaptation
Image Comics
Showrunner Chris Rogers was on hand at the panel and, at one point, discussed how they went about adapting what Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang had put on the page. This is not going to be a panel-for-panel interpretation but, make no mistake, Rogers took this very seriously. “Don’t blow it,” he joked, acknowledging that this is indeed a beloved comic and the source material is precious to many out there. Really, it’s about expanding upon the material in the comics by giving us “scenes and moments implied just outside the panel.” So while there may be stuff in the show that wasn’t directly in the book, much of what was added was very much rooted in the source material.
The warring factions of time travel
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The sci-fi series deals heavily with time travel, but it’s not so simple as one man with a time machine or anything along those lines. It’s actually quite complex, and there are two different factions who are on very different sides of how to deal with time travel: the STF and the Old Guard. Brian K. Vaughan said of the two groups that there is “one that’s very passionate about time should not be changed,” while the other group feels “If we have the capability to go back and make something better, we can.” He also noted that he liked that “there’s not really good guys or bad guys, they’re just different perspectives.”
The main cast never met until they arrived on set
Prime Video
The core cast of four young girls playing our paper girls in the show never actually met before filming, and that was very much by design. It was revealed during the panel that they were told explicitly not to meet beforehand so their bond could be organic, as it is in the show. They did, however, become very fast friends, with Camryn Jones explaining they “bonded over ice cream.” I can anecdotally say I have been to a lot of these panels, but the chemistry and friendship between the four seemed quite genuine. As I will discuss momentarily, that plays out on screen as well. Riley Lai Nelet also said: “It felt like there were eight girls instead of four,” explaining there were the characters and themselves. Plus, there are the future versions of themselves, with Ali Wong playing a grown-up version of Nelet’s Erin.
Paper Girls: 5 Things We Learned From The Comic-Con Panel
Prime Video
How they approached the adaptation
Image Comics
Showrunner Chris Rogers was on hand at the panel and, at one point, discussed how they went about adapting what Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang had put on the page. This is not going to be a panel-for-panel interpretation but, make no mistake, Rogers took this very seriously. “Don’t blow it,” he joked, acknowledging that this is indeed a beloved comic and the source material is precious to many out there. Really, it’s about expanding upon the material in the comics by giving us “scenes and moments implied just outside the panel.” So while there may be stuff in the show that wasn’t directly in the book, much of what was added was very much rooted in the source material.
The warring factions of time travel
The sci-fi series deals heavily with time travel, but it’s not so simple as one man with a time machine or anything along those lines. It’s actually quite complex, and there are two different factions who are on very different sides of how to deal with time travel: the STF and the Old Guard. Brian K. Vaughan said of the two groups that there is “one that’s very passionate about time should not be changed,” while the other group feels “If we have the capability to go back and make something better, we can.” He also noted that he liked that “there’s not really good guys or bad guys, they’re just different perspectives.”
The main cast never met until they arrived on set
The core cast of four young girls playing our paper girls in the show never actually met before filming, and that was very much by design. It was revealed during the panel that they were told explicitly not to meet beforehand so their bond could be organic, as it is in the show. They did, however, become very fast friends, with Camryn Jones explaining they “bonded over ice cream.” I can anecdotally say I have been to a lot of these panels, but the chemistry and friendship between the four seemed quite genuine. As I will discuss momentarily, that plays out on screen as well. Riley Lai Nelet also said: “It felt like there were eight girls instead of four,” explaining there were the characters and themselves. Plus, there are the future versions of themselves, with Ali Wong playing a grown-up version of Nelet’s Erin.
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“Paper Girls” debuts on Prime Video on July 29, 2022.
